Guest Researchers

The IRS is an interdisciplinary institute and welcomes guest researchers from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds. Since its foundation, the IRS has hosted geographers, political scientists, economists, sociologists, historians and scholars from planning science. Cooperation amongst guest researchers and IRS scholars (on lectures, publications and third-party funding applications for example) enhances the institute's research efforts and contributes to the institute's ongoing development.

At the IRS, guest researchers benefit from an excellent research infrastructure, and from the institute's close ties to universities and non-university research institutes in the Berlin-Brandenburg region. During their stay, guest researchers are invited to participate in and contribute to workshops and conferences held at the IRS. The institute can provide three fully equipped workspaces for guests.

IRS Fellowship Programme

Since 2013 the IRS has supported international guest researchers with an institutional scholarship programme in order to finance their stay at the institute. Even in the age of digitalization, excellent research requires personal contact and joint working periods; the "IRS Fellowship Programme" shall enable this intensive academic collaboration. more infos

Selection of current and former guests of the IRS (by alphabet)

Alena Pfoser
Loughborough University
09/10/2024 - 09/14/2024
Danielle Kerrigan
Simon Fraser University
01/01/2024 - 12/31/2024
Chengzhi Yin
Tsinghua University
01/22/2024 - 02/04/2024
Philip Verfürth
Osnabrück University
02/19/2024 - 03/31/2024
Andrew Demshuk
American University
01/02/2023 - 01/11/2023
Lea Marie Nienhoff
University of Basel
10/16/2023 - 12/08/2023
Manuel B. Aalbers
Catholic University Louvain
03/31/2023 - 05/31/2023
Daniel Siemens
Newcastle University
07/10/2023 - 07/23/2023
Ondřej Ševeček
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
02/27/2023 - 03/09/2023
Kobi Cohen-Hattab
Bar-Ilan University
05/02/2022 - 05/17/2022
Sami Moisio
University of Helsinki
12/06/2022 - 12/08/2022
Łukasz Drozda
University of Warsaw
09/26/2022 - 09/30/2022
Shilla Lee
Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures (Norwich; London)
10/01/2022 - 12/31/2022
Claudia Seldin
Technical University Berlin (Center for Metropolitan Studies)
06/15/2022 - 08/15/2022
Maciej Frackowiak
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
03/28/2022 - 04/08/2022
Örjan Sjöberg
Stockholm School of Economics
02/15/2022 - 06/30/2022
Alessandro Coppola
Polytechnic University of Milan
02/01/2022 - 02/25/2022
Anna-Katharina Brenner
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences
07/26/2021 - 09/03/2021
Jaroslav Ira
Charles University
10/23/2020 - 12/14/2020
Mikkel Høghøj
Aarhus Universitet
09/21/2020 - 10/23/2020
Marta J. Bąkiewicz
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
02/24/2020 - 03/20/2020
Lizzie Richardson
University of Sheffield
12/04/2019 - 12/06/2019
Xiangming Chen
Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
10/21/2019 - 10/25/2019
Philipp Altmann
Universidad Central del Ecuador
08/19/2019 - 09/15/2019
Stefanie Döringer
Institut für Stadt- und Regionalforschung der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien
08/05/2019 - 10/07/2019
Kadri Leetmaa
University of Tartu
07/22/2019 - 07/23/2019
Bianka Plüschke-Altof
Tallinn University
07/22/2019 - 08/02/2019
Marta Lennartowicz
Free University of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
06/11/2019 - 06/21/2019
Taylor Brydges
Stockholm University
06/07/2019 - 06/14/2019
Ender Peker
Istanbul Policy Center, Sabancı University (Istanbul)
04/08/2019 - 04/26/2019
Ute Lehrer
York University Toronto
04/08/2019 - 04/12/2019
Ignasi Capdevila
Paris School of Business
03/11/2019 - 03/15/2019
Aaron Andrews
Leeds Beckett University
02/25/2019 - 03/09/2019
Richard Lang
Johannes Kepler University Linz, Institute for Innovation Management (IFI)
04/16/2018 - 04/20/2018
Łukasz Stanek
University of Manchester
02/26/2018 - 03/07/2018
Research Support and International Affairs
Stefan Lindemann

Financing your stay

IRS Fellowship Programme

DAAD scholarships

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions  (European Commission): Postdoctoral Fellowships

European Research Council (ERC)

In almost all countries national funding schemes exist that allow researchers to conduct research abroad. Please check with your national funding organization(s) if there are programs providing funding for researchers to come to Germany.